Swimming support with Apple Watch 2

Hi I have been given an apple watch for Christmas and I was wondering if there is every going to be able to either upload swims straight from the apple watch activity app or have the swim feature in the watch addition app

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In early 2018, we will be working on a new integration between Strava and Apple Health. It is possible that we will be able to sync swim activities recorded with the native Apple Watch app to Strava. Stay tuned.

Amid your workout, raise your wrist to check your advance. Turn the Digital Crown to highlight the metric that is most vital to you. When you run or walk, your Apple Watch taps you each mile or kilometer, and it demonstrates to Help with HR Research Paper you a report on the screen. In case you're cycling, your Apple Watch taps you each five miles or kilometers.

Lack of a swim integration is the only thing that keeps me from using strava over the crappy apple workout app. You should really consider integrating swim even at the basic level of Apple Workout because your bike and run are vastly superior to Workout or any other app out there.

I'm in full support of the swim feature also. Especially without having to keep the phone close by. I think for any users that have swimming in their training regimen, collecting and being able to use the data in Strava would be ideal. Also, and this is a random side note, I think a stroke count would be useful for swimming stationary against a current. Thanks for your consideration of a swimming feature...

I read through the posts, but didn't see one from Strava. I had very good luck with yesterday's release for Apple Watch 2 on my bike. Now that the AW2 release is out, is a swimming function in our near future?

@Matthias - there is no solution for syncing other apps through Strava. You can use your Apple Activity app to get a general view of all your workouts - Strava and NRC will feed into that. But it's a real general overview. Some people like Swim.com app but I've found it to be highly inaccurate. I just use the Apple workout app swim setting to gauge my swim workouts. Very basic (Laps, Time, HR and calories) but it's better than nothing. If Strava developed a swim function and even if they only offered it on pro version, it would be the goto app for all people that swim, bike or run. Strava executes things so well - I wish they would to a swim function

Swimming is the third classic sport that goes with running and cycling. I use my Apple Watch 2 with Strava for running and cycling but my swims are lost in the Apple app... Come on Strava - support swimming!

Marek, this is what it says at the end of that post. "* Support for recording in these new activity types on mobile devices is coming soon. In the meantime, you can change the activity type accordingly from the Edit screen. For indoor activities, log them by manually entering your workouts."

Marek, I saw that too. I think they mean with the phone app or on the computer, and you select the activities specifically when you finish recording. But I'm with everyone on this thread, they've got to do apple watch support for these activities. It would be a game changer and really put them out in front.

Hi Strava, can you give some insight on this? When we might see swim integration into your app? If Strava has an current plans to do this at all. I expect many of us thought this might be part of your Apple Watch 2 update (and why it took so long). If there is another thread where this question was answered, can you please post a link on this thread?

Sorry to keep banging on Strava swimming integration on Apple Watch 2 but at the very very least, if you are not going to develop a native Strava Swim App for the Apple watch would you at least create an option on Strava to upload swim data from the Apple Workout app? At least then we could use Strava to be an aggregator of our workouts.